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salmon back, and his elder wife came home slowly. The younger 

 sister cooked the salmon and put it between herself and her husband. 

 He pulled it along toward his elder wife, but the other said, "She 

 shall not have any. She is going to live on love." Then her husband 

 said that if she would let her sister have some salmon he would go 

 out and try to get another himself. It was early in the spring and 

 the salmon were scarce. The younger wife now felt jealous of her 

 sister because she thought that their husband thought more of her 

 than of herself, though really the reverse was the case. He pitied 

 the elder, however, because she had done so much for him. 



When the young man saw that his younger wife was angry toward 

 the elder, however, he determined to leave them for a time. The 

 younger did not want to let him go, and begged him hard to remain, 

 but the elder said nothing, for he had told her his reasons. Finally 

 he told his younger wife that she must let him go but that he would 

 come back. He said that she must treat her elder sister well because 

 his cousin (lit. "elder brother") had been in love with her. When 

 she asked him what cousin he meant, he explained that his elder 

 brother had died quite a while ago and that this girl had been in 

 love with him. After that she let him set out. 



At this time he thought that he would kill liis uncle, so he paddled 

 thither. His uncle saw him, knew what ho had come for, and was 

 frightened. Then the young man went to his uncle's house, spent 

 the evening and started away again. About midnight, however, he 

 returned and told his uncle that he luid come to kill him because he 

 had murdered his brothers and made him himself sulTer. Although 

 his uncle begged hard to be spared, he killed him, and, after telling 

 his uncle's wife that he had killed her husband and why he had done 

 so, he returned to his wives. 



53. THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE EAGLE 



This is a story of something that happened among the Haida. It 

 is about a young man there who married a very fme-looking girl. 

 This girl deceived her husband and went with the son of the town 

 chief, but her husband found 'it out and killed him. Since the 

 dead man belonged to such high-caste people, the girl's husband was 

 afraid and told his slave to take him off in his canoe. Before the 

 relatives of the murdered man found it out and had started in ])ur- 

 suit, he had gotten some distance away. He and his slave paddled 

 ver}^ hard and got way out into the ocean, and, when at last the 

 man looked up, he found that he was close to a large rock very far 

 out. Then he jumped ashore, and, seeing that there w^ere very many 

 seals there, he began clubbing them forgetful of the fact that he was 

 a fugitive. At last, when he did look up, he found that his slave 

 had deserted him and was now a long distance off. 



